Only rich white people get Corona. Do you know anyone who has got it?

The houseless, poverty skolaz chuckled as he refused another one of my attempts to hand him a mask.

The sad irony, as all of us poor people know too well, is this evil virus ended up killing more poor Black, Brown and indigenous peoples due to so many factors, not the least of which is poverty, medical racism, dangerous work conditions, and poor-people healthcare access.

Masks are for pussies, I dont wear a mask, Corona virus is a hoax, it wont kill meIm already dead Im having my damn birthday party no matter what , I dont trust these doctors no-how, we have been lied to before, I cant quarantine when we live in one room, my boss isnt giving any PPE, expects us to buy our own, I have to work no matter what, we get no sick leave, our sick leave means we are fired

From rural underclass to indigenous border resistor, to b-boy to pastor, so many of our come-unities in poverty, indigenous peoples, poor folks, since the beginning of this global terror have actively been discriminated against, forced to work, or passed disinformation, misinformation and confusion rooted in 528 years of medical apartheid, medical racism, removal, incarcerationcolonial terror, and the lies of the privileged class to us poor people back and forth among our communities.

There have been amazing acts of liberation from grassroots revolutionaries like Community Ready Corp, Oakland Brown Berets, Self-Help Hunger Program, Mask Oakland, Homies Empowerment Sacramento Homeless Union and Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign in Philly and us at POOR Magazine/Homefulness drastically increasing theradical redisibution of healthy meals and tents and blanketswe have been distributing for eight years on the streets to include, supplies, groceries, money, diapers, masks, hand sanitizers and medicine to more than 1,200 very poor housed and unhoused community across the Bay.

All the while there have been insane acts of genocide in the carceral nation in COVID like the cultural genocide of indefinite sentencing and false border detention of families in this stolen land.

It doesnt help so many of us folks scattered across this land have been ruled over by a rapist, criminally negligent wealth-hoarder whose leadership has helped the United States have the highest COVID numbers in the world. And please believe poverty and racism has everything to do with so much about staying healthy

I am not pro-Big Pharma or pro-White medicine. I am one of these confused peoples, notwithstanding my light-skinned privilege, I am the daughter of a traumatized, disabled, angry indigenous Afro-Taino woman, who was tortured and experimented on as a child, whose thyroid gland, ovaries and heart were poisoned by those experiments and who passed way too young because of the damage of all of that to her poor body. Since age 18 I was on poor people hellthcare plan (read: no healthcare) and my idea of care was an 18-26 hour wait in an emergency room for everything from an inhaler to a cast and watched my fierce mama take on the racist classist doctor class when they tried to say she wasnt entitled to cardio-rehab programs cause she was on state poor people insurance aka Medi-Cal and only offered her a nine-pill cocktail of Big Pharma as her only solution.

What I do know is I got this shit and it almost killed me.

So if anyone cares to read on, I am writing this story for the sole purpose of helping fellow poor and indigenous peoples figure out how to survive and think through this nightmare we have collectively found ourselves in.

I also know that masks, social distancing and hand-washing arent everything but its something and right now, in addition to taking extra care of our immune systems, its all we have and frankly anything to avoid this killer illness is worth doing cause it is not something you ever want to get if you can avoid it.

How to you shelter in place if you have no place?

The day the Shelter-in-Place order was enacted, POOR closed all of our multiple in-person teaching programs including our liberation school for very lolw-income, homeless, disabled, indigenous youthDeecolonize Academy,Po Peoples radiotrainings, community writing workshops and support work and at the same time began amping up our street distribution work, as so many of the huge non-profiteers ended up shutting down, leaving thousands of fellow poverty skolaz/ houseless and poor people with no food, no supplies and no shelter.

We increased our two days a week on the street to four days a week and we took all the masks we had collected when the fires from the summer happened to distribute to everyone that needed them as well as hand sanitizers and cleaning supplies to folks on the street who had no access to water much-less soap or paper towels. And because so many poltricksters are evil and people are haters, were still struggling with the violence called sweeps even in a pandemic.

Internally at POOR Magazine we adopted all the safety protocols we could possibly do and provided each other with PPE never went out without masks and gloves and practiced social distancing and constant hand washing and as much safety as we could manifest. From March to May we distributed to more 800 people each week all across the Bay.

And then on May 25th, my birthday, something happened. A member of our community came down with COVID. The next day my son literally collapsed saying he was too weak to stand up, and the following day, I almost fainted, and another member of our Homefulness family also fell ill. We closed everything else were doing down, sent everyone home and got tested and lo and behold four of us formerly houseless residents of this beautiful liberation village called Homefulness had contracted COVID-19.

I lived in the school/ office/recording studio/Mac Labbuilding, so all of the group activities and bathroom use and traffic and supplies came in and out of the place me and my son lived. I, as someone who literally was on the street houseless with my mama for all of my childhood and then again before we moved to Homefulness in 2013, was happy and blessed to even have a roof, a home and safety.

But in some ways at this moment meant we werent as safe, because as we un-packed it our private areas were public and we had no way to control that, so we werent able to really prevent contact.

Me and Tibus reality is sadly like a lot of poor people living communally, like the more than 830 families we supportweekly atSliding Scale Cafe/Mercadito de Cambio at Homefulness with masks, food, hand sanitizers, medicine, produce, diapers and groceries. Most of them live in communal housing and are unable to successfully quarantine even if any of them gets sick.

On top of that, unless they are engaged with Street Level Health project or some other indigenous medicine clinics, they struggle with access to their indigenous healing practices, living on this stolen land thousands of miles away from their villages and mamas and community doctors and yerbas (herbs).

All of our village elders convened an emergency meeting and we decided to close everything down, beginning with our school Decolonize Academy which we were already holding on zoom most days but now even the promotion ceremony was moved online, PNN-KEXU radioand all of our outreach work like Sliding Scale Cafe andRoofLESS radioso as not to put anyone else at risk, this being our first and foremost priority that we realized we must do so no-one else would suffer our fate.

It takes a ComeUnity to boost an immune system

While you could say that being embedded so deeply in community caused our collective virus, it also was responsible for our survival and eventual health.

First, we went into an arsenal to bump up our collective immune systems, determined to not end up in the increasingly filled up ICU and because we knew that white Science did not hold our collective cure.

A nutritionist and herbalist at Street Level Health Project created a tincture blend of baikal skullcap, red root, boneset, elecampane, usnea, and licorice (no licorice for those with high blood pressure) for each of us that we took religiously for four weeks 90 drops of horrible tasting wonderfulness in water. Michele Kim, and her fierce mama, one of our POOR Magazine solidarity fam created some beautifully amazing Korean healing soup, which was all me and Tiburcio and the other family member here could seem to eat.

I began an extremely rigid regimen of 1,000-4,000 mg of Vitamin C, (which I learned from a doctor in China),eight mg of zinc, 10 mg of melatonin, ginger, garlic, turmeric, reishi and Vitamin D every day and as much nettles, mullein, and other lung tonic teas as I could get. I cut all sugar out and replaced it barely with tiny slivers of the insanely expensive Marukan honey as prescribed by indigenous Filipino nurse /teacherSockie Lala Smith( referred by beautiful sisSTAR Pearl Ubungena.

I had heard that in France, for people that had asthma like me taking an antibiotic is a good idea to kill the infection that might grow in the lungs and so I got a Z-Pac or Zithro-Max, which if you ask a doctor for , they act like you are slanging it in the streets and make you fight them for, and to be clear this didnt cure me, but did take the edge off a bronchial infection that was growing in my weak lungs thanks for the violent attacks of this evil COVID.

Covid aint got nothing on the trauma in our heads

Minutes leaked into hours, hours into days and days into weeks. Time passed in that molasses way that time passes for traumatized people who cant stop thinking, worrying, activating, working because the minute we slow down, even a little, all that we are working so hard to forget fills our heads, we start obsessing and depressing and get lost in the silent terror of our trauma that lurks there in the shadows, that drives us to seek the mans poison, dangerous killer substances and our own death just to quiet the pain.

We held each other, not actually, but spiritually and metaphorically, held each others stories and shared those survival tips, survival thru the violence of our own dangerous minds, that has kept us alive this far even when we thought we couldnt go on any further. We prayed deeply in all the traditions each of us practice and fed the ancestors with offerings and requests for help. And then we just waited.

In two weeks, we felt sort of okay. Just be sure we waited another two weeks and then tested everyone in the village. We all tested negative. Twice. After a full six weeks, raising funds and acquiring a porta potty so community could use a bathroom not in someones house and public messaging posted all over the land as well as ongoing teachings/trainings with youth and elder residents, visitors and workers about COVID protocol and a whole overhaul of use of community space, we tentatively opened up for limited community service activity.

Although we were healed I never felt exactly the same. None of us would qualify as long-haulers but I never got back my sense of taste or smell. And even with the negative tests, I felt like my immune system was constantly being tested and for at least three weeks more I would teeter on what felt like the knifes edge of getting sick again and would amp up the garlic, ginger, mushroom, cilantro, mint caldo de pollo (chicken soup) and as much water and clear liquid as I could stand and more of the high doses of vitamin C and on and on and on.

Wealth-hoarding kills; radical redistribution heals

Now lets get real about something: These tinctures and vitamins and organic food and produce arent cheap. Health in this country is tied to access and resources. It is one of the many reasons we work soooo hard to get organic, homemade healthy food out to our Sliding Scale Cafe each week and why we collaborate with multiple bakeries, Green Gulch, the Fruit Guys, Phat Beetz and The Self-Help Hunger Program to get fresh produce harvested and distributed out to all the hundreds of very low, no-income families and elders we support weekly at Mercaditor de Cambio and across the Bay with houseless folks in RoofLESS radio.

When we buy food for our school and homefulness communities we only buy organic and this is not cheap and made possible by the radical redistribution principals we teach young folks with race and class privilege at our biyearly PeopleSkool. Its also why when we launched Homefuness with ComeUnity gardens it was always open to everyone to pick and eat and have and lastly it is because of conscious medicine makers like Bay HRT ( Bay Area Herbal Resource Team) who in addition to Street Level redistributes organic bugie vitamins and Fire Cider (an immune-boosting tincture).

From COVID to cancer

I have a theory, not at all proven, but a theory, that COVID attacks the immune system, allowing cancer cells grow, said Rupa Marya, a revolutionary doctor friend who has been working on a book to connect the way colonization causes our collective inflammation.

Two weeks ago, on December 15th, I went in for a perfunctory Pap smear and discovered that I in fact had cancer.

I have difficult newswe found cancer in your uterus.

As she spoke the doctors words seemed to lift out of the phone and drift off into the afternoon sky, as they did they melted down into a pastel blob blending into other words, grabbing memories and turning them into images, dark into light. Fear into terror. I really dont know how but then I ended up on the floor of the POOR Magazine revolutionary service van that we use to transport endless amounts of disabled children and elders into and out of school, events, support. Im not sure how long I sat there, numb and confused. Really?? I murmured to my breaking self, hadnt I been through enough struggle for 10 people in my life? did I really need more loss, more sorrow, more evil, more to overcome?

It was a blur. My Mama Dee who always sent me messages from the other side of the spirit journey, sent me a message, cut and dry like she always did, without any fat or frills, in a blog of survivor stories by a Boricua sister that even looked a little like her named Dee M. Yea it was mama alright, It stated simply If you catch it early you will be ok, mama and her jokes.

White science I had never trusted, never had success or trust in, came through, claiming after a CT scan that a robot could take all my life-giving parts out, that I must do this procedure quickly, and trust implicitly in everything I had no trust in.

I consulted with my madrina in the Yoruba tradition I practice and learned that this was a full circle back to the day of having my son when I was houseless with my mama, when I was caught in a dangerous DV relationship that almost killed me and my mama was gravely ill with what took her to the other side. The best day of my life and the worst, all mixed together, where I was 5150ed in mywhite-science, softly violent hospital room, the police were called on me and I almost lost the beautiful life I had just brought into this world.

The robot and me

I did this surgery. On Monday December 21st, Solstice, the longest night of the year. The night that is like a womb itself. The weird robot was apparently 100 percent successful.

They handed pain-killers out to me like it was candy and threw me out of the hospital way too soon and Im still alive. The intense pain subsides a little more every day and I grapple with that this terrifying lesson I really didnt need to learn taught me.

For one thing, cancer aint got nothing on the cancer called trauma that plagues my mind as I sit and try to rest, my thoughts racing. But community surrounds around me with a love blanket I cant even describe.

There is this magical thing called a Meal Train, set up by sister warrior- friend and collaborator Corrina Gould, who along with Fuifuilupe Niumitolu, Muteado Silencio, ISrael, Jeremy Miller, Nancy Chavez, Pearl Ubungen, Juju, Mama Blue, Mama sue Kuyper and Sue Ferrer, Jewnbug, Queennandi,Dee Allen, Joseph Bolden, Angel Haert, Yael, Paige, Tony, Leroy, Loa, Christy, JV, Westyn,Talibah,Frances, Momi, my beautiful son and so many more in my village have been here holding up skies, sending me food, buying groceries, offering love, rides and more, breaking through my deeply terrified head-space and layers of trauma and desperate alone-ness.

My mind wanders back to me and mama who were, above all, so desperately alone. Whenevercrisis would hit there was no-one to call, nowhere to stay, no one to talk to, or communityto call on. My mama was a mixed race, unwanted orphan, and unprotected child, who suffered severe abuse in orphanages and violent racist foster homes throughout her childhood and therefore trusted no one. She was left and hurt and betrayed over and over again. She had no reason to believe in people or institutions because they had always let her down, hurt or almost killed her. So crises hit us and we were all we had. Always.

I cant say the cancer caused the COVID but it wouldnt surprise me if it did. What I can say is this virus should be fought on every front. For everyone reading this please take these lessons VERY seriously, please integrate all safety practices you can to avoid it, from masks to social distance.

In addition, please overstand and understand that the other viruses called poverty, police terror, incarceration, racism, classism, and isolation in this stolen land are also extremely dangerous and our lives as humans arent meant to live in this hater, hoarding, I-got-mines bubble called krapitalism.

And for all of you that know this poverty skola, peoples souldjah is here, working my hardest, as I have always done, to resist, protest, manifest, implement, listen, pray, dream and walk into with you into decolonization, degentriFUKation and liberation so we can all heal together from all of these deadly pandemics before they kill us all.

Tiny and other skolaz will be on the road this spring and summer helping other houseless poverty skolaz launch Po Peoples Radio/POORNewsNEtwork outlets while also teaching/ sharing the medicine of Radical redistribution with as many wealth-hoarders as are ready to degentriFUK and decolonize- so other sites for Bank of ComeUnity Reparations can be launched to invite her to your town, church, group, college or encampment emailpoormag@gmail.comor go to@povertyskola on Twitter or@poormagazine on IG.

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Humans have been farming almost since the very beginning of civilization. As civilization grew and the population continued to grow with it, these farms became even more essential to the perpetuation of the species. Unfortunately, our species unchecked growth has wreaked havoc on the natural world. Biodiversity, the variety, and the variability of life on Earth have been adversely impacted by many aspects of civilization, but commercial farming is one of the most egregious. On the other hand, organic farming has had a positive effect on biodiversity

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Research from the Universities of Leeds and York has recently revealed that biodiversity on organic farms is far greater than it is on conventional farms. Among the evidence cited in the paper, the researchers have seen an overall 12 percent increase in biodiversity. Organic farms were found to have more plant diversity and greater floral diversity, as well as more earthworms, insects, butterflies, and even increased numbers of some types of birds.

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What this means is that organic farms are better equipped to keep their environmental impact lower than that of commercial farms. This has to do with the practices involved in organic farming and the environmentally-conscious methodologies that render their agricultural process so much more eco-friendly.

The same is true for organic and regenerative animal farming, which, in some cases, allows for the free range of domesticated animals. By allowing their animals to range and become part of the surrounding environment, organic farmers are able to utilize the natural grazing behaviors and fertilization, erm, methods of the animals they raise. Nature is still being contained, but it is also being allowed to flourish in a more natural way than on non-organic animal farms and factory farms.

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There's a reason that the bees and bugs and birds thrive so well in and around organic farms. The main reason for this is the lack of chemical pesticides. Pesticides like Roundup are cancer-causing chemical concoctions that not only harm the insects that try to take a small share of our crops, but they also cause harm to the humans that rely on those crops for survival. These chemicals, in particular, wreak havoc on bee populations, which are essential for pollinating plants and crops the world over.

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Without these chemicals, crops can still thrive, and eco-friendly methods are undertaken to repel insects rather than annihilate them. More insects mean more birds, who in turn, eat the insects and keep the populations down. This cycle is part of a working degree of biodiversity that human beings have convinced themselves is unnecessary for growing crops. It may be less efficient, but it certainly isnt detrimental. Although, some folks might think otherwise.

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Organic farming utilizes soil conservation tactics and practices that help the nutrients and microorganisms thrive. Many organic farms utilize compost, natural fertilizer, and no-till farming practices that eliminate or lessen soil degradation over time. This means that even if organic farming were to require even more land to collect similar yields to commercial farming, it would not need to find new land as often.

So rather than utilizing slash-and-burn farming methodologies that strip whole swaths of land of all nutrients after a few growing seasons, organic farmers are often sensible of the delicate balance of the natural world. They know that earthworms help maintain soil, and that insect and bird waste can help it remain arable. It is a type of conservation, which in turn helps build or rebuild biodiversity amongst the creatures that live there.

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Despite the evidence of its successes in terms of biodiversity, there are naysayers out there that believe that organic farmings positive impact is little more than the fluke result of a hippie-dippie practice that is not aware of how insignificant it really is. Several experts, including Professor Tim Benton, who was a lead researcher on the Leeds project, have drawn less than stellar conclusions about the prospect of increased organic farming.

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Prof. Benton states that while organic farms may be seen as wildlife-friendly, but the benefits to birds, bees, and butterflies do not compensate for the lower yields produced. He goes on to conclude that to produce the same amount of organic food as those produced by conventional means, you would need to use twice the amount of land for agriculture. It means that organic farming, while more environmentally-friendly in the long run, still has a significant environmental impact on the planet.

Organic farming may not be the catch-all solution to our environmental problems, but its certainly helpful in returning the world to a state of balance. Our growing population and the demands upon our overall yields of crops will continue to necessitate more streamlined and effective farming processes, but that does not preclude adopting practices that take care of our environment rather than incrementally stripping it of the very things it needs to survive.

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Mushroom Powders Market: Market Outlook

Mushroom is a type of fungi, contains the most effective nutrients and provides numerous health benefits. Mushroom is a good source of vitamin, minerals, offer antioxidants, low in calories and sodium, gluten-free and others. The mushroom powder obtained from the dried mushroom which is grounded into an ultra-fine powder. The mushroom powder is tasteless and the drying process doesnt remove the important nutrients from the mushroom.

The mushroom powder is beneficial as like as mushroom, even it increases the concentration and offer better benefits. Mushroom powder offers the several health benefits such as boost the immune system, promotes heart health, helps to control the blood sugar, improves the antioxidant levels, reduces the fatigue and fight depression and may help to protect from cancer. The mushroom powder is mostly used to provide the thickness to the soups, sauces, bouillons, ready meals, coffee, tea, and other savory products.

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Rising demand for the organic food and growing health awareness among the consumers is driving the mushroom powder market.

Mushroom powder market is driven by the growing consumption of organic food and also by the consumers preference towards the health beneficial diets. The mushroom powder is a vital source of organic food, it is obtained by dried mushroom with no added preservatives. The mushroom powder is mostly utilized for the ready to eat meals such as soups, stew, sauces which are part of the processed food. As the processed food industry is growing rapidly, mushroom powder usage is increasing for the different foods. The mushroom powder contains various nutrients and helps the human body by offering numerous benefits. Consumers are influencing towards the health consciousness which is creating more demand for mushroom powder.

Even the mushroom powder provides various health benefits, some of the consumers are also allergic to the mushroom which is one of the key factors for restraining the mushroom powder market. Apart from that, mushroom powder has also its side effects after consumption. Tiredness, stomach upset, absent-minded, skin allergies are some the side effects which can negatively influence the consumers towards the consumption of mushroom powder.

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The stalemate between the Centre and the protesting farmers over the three farm reform laws -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm services Act, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act -- is going on for over a month now, with no agreement in sight. The government has repeatedly assured farmers that the reforms will prove to be beneficial for them. However, the farmers fear that the new bills will erode the existing MSP (Minimum support price) system, make the government-controlled mandis (APMC) redundant, and more importantly, will allow private players to enter the market which will diminish their bargaining powers.

Under such circumstances, to end the impasse, the government will have to think of 'creative solutions', suggested Gauri Sarin, a social entrepreneur, and the Founder Director of Bhumijaa, a platform for organic agripreneur. In an interview with News18, Sarin said, "...the solutions will have to be more creative, reach more farmers, differentiate the poorer and richer farmers, and build MSP as a tool for real change. The corporatisation of Agri-sector is a double-edged sword. Investment in Agri diversity cold chains is equally essential. Government has to balance the need for supporting localisation and for scale to make agri-sector both competitive and remunerative for farmers at the same time keeping the consumer centrestage. "

Sarin added that just because private players will be entering the market doesn't always mean that it would affect all farmers adversely. "There are examples where private players have helped too. In Bihar and Odisha farmers have managed to organise buyers for them and created a demand-based system successfully," she said.

Pointing out that even before the farm reform bills, there were farmers who ran successful businesses outside the mandi frame-work and MSP system, Sarin said, "If you ask me from an organic farming point of view, then I would say that most organic players don't use the existing system at all. They neither avail the MSP nor do they sell in mandis. They have always used their private networksmany organic farmers sell directly. So, organic farmers have already shown the way of breaking away from the mandi system."

However, she warned that in a free economy, big private players are likely to hold the bargaining chip. Therefore, the responsibility falls on the government to take care of the 'poorer farmers' and level the playing fields.

"... a free economy model will always affect some people negatively, and my personal view is that the real farmers -- who have less land, and not many other ways to earn a livelihood except farming-- will need the government to take care of them because they will face poverty. They need to be brought up to scale," she said.

"At this point, the farmers don't know what the future entails for them. Different types of competitive parameters are likely to come in. Farmers are neither skilled to handle that kind of competition nor are they capable of negotiations. Therefore, for any change in the agriculture sector to work, farmers need to be a part of the process of change - from education to linkage." she added.

Sarin, who has been training organic farmers, and women agripreneurs through her platform Bhumijaa said that another crucial aspect of the agriculture sector that calls for urgent attention is the need to acknowledge and enhance the role that women play in it, be it as farmers, food processors, or livestock caretakers. A push to women in agri-entrepreneurship will not only give a boost to the sector but will also improve rural livelihood, and create many micro-enterprises.

Sarin claimed that it is time that India set a goal to go organic for the sake of its environment and the collective health of the populace. "If India plans that in the next 15 years it will go organic and/or natural, it will not only help us mitigate climate change and introduce food diversity but also help the country in terms of wealth," she explained.

She prescribed that India needs food forests, and at least 10 per cent of farmers in every state should start creating food forests now. Food forests allow multi-layer farming in which fruit trees (which give fruits year after year) and other layers of vegetables, grains and pulses production can happen simultaneously. If we start creating food forests in our eco-system, then we will automatically create a very high-quality carbon sink, which will have far-reaching impact in terms of mitigating climate change." said Sarin.

"Every state should plan certain districts to go organic and places like Uttarakhand, and Himachal, which already have a propensity towards organic methods, should embrace them wholeheartedly. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana have done a fabulous job when it comes to organic farming, so has Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Haryana is also likely to follow suit soon. In Punjab, there is Kheti Virasat Mission, but it is still in a very nascent state. The kind of changes that Andhra Pradesh has brought about is inspiring because if a state of that size can transform, so can others," she added.

While the agricultural lands in India are huge (more than 60 per cent), organic farms do not make-up even a minuscule portion of it. "The agricultural landmass is huge in India and if we start organic farming, and regenerating that agricultural landmass into biomass, with rich microbes, and maintaining soil moisture, it will make a substantial difference for the environment. Unfortunately, this doesn't hit people in the urban centres who are making decisions, simply because in the urban centres, there is no landmass to talk about, " pointed out Sarin.

Apart from the environment, another reason people have begun to choose organic food is because of health concerns. In urban sectors, many individuals, who have faced life-threatening diseases, have switched to organic food. While hunger was once a major problem for India, with an advanced PDS scheme, and a yield-based economy, we have been able to overcome that concern. However, malnourishment still plagues our country, and Sarin propounds that a big reason for it is the fact that food is grown with the help of chemicals, and therefore, lack nutritional value. "The nourishment problem, in fact, is high in urban centers too, because people are used to eating processed and junk food. We will have to move from a yield-based economy, to a nutrition-based economy, if we want to eradicate malnutrition successfully, pointed out Sarin, who has also started a platform called Living Without Medicine, which helps people make healthy food choices.

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Bhopal : Governor Smt. Anandiben Patel said that agriculture universities must volunteer to supply organic inputs. Agricultural universities should implement the action plan to provide organic seeds, fertilizers and pesticides to farmers. She said that the need to supply organic inputs to farmers should be sorted out and supply should be arranged accordingly in the next two-three years. She told the scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra to ensure production of improved organic food grains, fertilizers and pesticides by farmers so that other farmers from nearby areas also get motivated. Smt. Patel was addressing farmers at the Organic Advanced Agriculture Programme held at Panwarkheda in Hoshangabad today. Minister for Farmer Welfare and Agriculture Development Shri Kamal Patel was also present on the occasion.

Governor Smt. Patel said that the products produced by using chemical fertilizers are very harmful for health. He said that if figures are to be considered, the number of people dying from cancer will be more than the deaths caused by any other infection. She said that efforts should be made with integrated vision for development. Successful production of organic manure, pesticides and nutrients from cow dung is being done in Gujarat. In Uttar Pradesh too, the project to produce organic products from cow dung of 10 thousand cows has begun. She stressed the need for integrated efforts for development She said that work is done in the villages aimed at integrated development, many problems will be solved. Citing the example of the problem of malnutrition, she said that if farmers start giving some vegetables in anganwadi and mid-day meal then children will start getting nutritious food. She said that children are the future of the country. Special attention will have to be paid to the health of women and girls because a healthy mother will give birth to a healthy child. She laid special emphasis on self-reliance of women for their empowerment and said that women self-help groups are a successful way to attain this. Governor Smt. Patel visited the exhibition of organic agricultural products at the programme venue and after interacting with the farmers, motivated them to sell their products by increasing its value. While appreciating the quality of organic products she encouraged them to sell their products at maximum retail price (MRP) instead of minimum support price (MSP).

Minister for Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Shri Kamal Patel said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has made farmers self-reliant. They have the right to sell their crop at maximum retail price (MRP), not the minimum support price (MSP). He said that till now there were many productive farmers, but due to few buyers, they could not get the right price for the crop. Now the farmer himself can sell his produce. He can get maximum retail price by forming a foodgrain producers association. He said that after 70 years of independence from the Swamitva Yojana, farmers are getting the right to free land. Now he too can establish his own business by taking loans from banks on the basis of his property. Shri Patel said that the indiscriminate use of chemical inputs has rendered the soil poisonous. Serious diseases like cancer are a byproduct of this. He said that the land needs to be treated. Therefore, in all agricultural science centres, OPDs will be run for land treatment during office hours. Agriculture scientists will visit villages and will advise farmers through chaupals, for which a toll free helpline will also be launched. He said that organic farming is the basis for a secure future for future generations.

Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Shri P.K. Bisen said that the Panwarkheda Agriculture Research Centre was established in the year 1903. During this period, 53 advanced varieties of wheat were invented by the centre. Urging the farmers not to burn Narwai, he said that by obtaining bio-digester from the centre, the Narwai can be converted into organic manure in 15 days.

The programme comprised the demonstration of silk production technology by Silk Department, organic produce by Horticulture Department, agriculture organic product and organic production technology by Agriculture Department, fish production technology and schemes by Fisheries Department, organic agriculture and horticulture and cow-based agricultural production, bamboo and matikalaan by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Govindnagar Bankhedi, organic agriculture and agro-based products by Krishi Vigyan Kendra Harda, Narsinghpur, Betul and Agricultural College Pawarkheda, Animal Husbandry programmes and departmental schemes by Department of Animal Husbandry, organic produce by the farmers and organic farming by the Agricultural Engineering Department. On this occasion, former Assembly Speaker Shri Sitasaran Sharma and District Panchayat President Shri Kushal Patel were also present.

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Failure. No one likes it, yet we all experience it sometime in our lives. We may think we are doing all of the right things as leaders and that every employee agrees, but typically that is not the case. We may also believe that as leaders we should have all of the answers, but that is unlikely to happen. If we are pushing ourselves, it is more likely that we will experience some stumbling blocks.

In fact, dealing with setbacks, obstacles, and failures is such a common human condition that we have courses on building resilience and on learning from our mistakes. There are many quotes from famous athletes, business people, writers, and other professionals about how they experienced numerous rejections yet learned from these disappointments, and eventually became successful. For example, Henry Ford said failure is simply the opportunity to begin again; this time more intelligently. One of my favorite quotes is by the basketball legend, Michael Jordan who said Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games, and 26 times Ive been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Leaders treat failure as a learning opportunity

As leaders, we have all experienced letdowns. How we respond to them, especially as leaders, tells a lot about our character and resilience. Its not easy and certainly the higher you are in a leadership position the harder it may be to deal with face loss where we fear losing the respect of others when we fail. It can be especially challenging if it wasnt expected. You thought you were doing a great job but received feedback that it wasnt going as well as you thought. Or, you believed you were a shoo-in for that next promotion, but it went to someone else. As leaders, others watch how we respond to setbacks or failures. Do we deny them or blame others? Or do we own them and figure out how we will move forward?

Interestingly, we teach children from an early age that they will experience setbacks and failures and that they need to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and move on. We may not give them the training or skills to know how to do this, but we encourage them to look at the positive side of things and move on. Yet this can be challenging for all of us, especially those who have not previously had to deal with failures or those higher up in the organization that are uncomfortable admitting failure in front of others.

So, as leaders, what can we do to gracefully move on from our failures or setbacks?

Know it will happen.

It is important to recognize that professional disappointments will occur at some point, especially if you have pushed yourself to tackle new jobs or increasing responsibilities and challenges. No one is prepared for every part of that next job. There are many stories of writers, like J.K. Rowling and Stephen King who received numerous rejections and then went on to become world-renowned. If you havent experienced failure it may be that you havent pushed yourself far enough. Albert Einstein might agree given his quote stating A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new. To grow you have to take on new opportunities and yet those come with new challenges and new potential obstacles. Recognize that pushing yourself to succeed comes with the possibilities of new problems. As Arianna Huffington said failure is not the opposite of success; it is part of success. You need to view success and failure as two sides of the same coin, and know that everything we do will have some elements of success and some elements of failure in it.

Hear it. Listen to what happened and try to understand it.

Self-awareness is critical in this process knowing that we will face difficult times, listening to the perceptions or feedback from others even if its not what we want to hear. These perceptions are important whether we like them or not. In the moment offailure, it's most important to stop and take stock. Experience or try to feel what you're feeling. Initially, stay calm and try to simply absorb it. Later, you can go back to analyze it to try to figure out what happened.

Accept it.

Once you hear it, you have to accept it, whether you want to or not. You wont be able to learn from it if you dont accept it. Basketball star, LeBron James said, You have to be able to accept failure to get better. This can be especially hard for leaders who have moved up the organizational hierarchy because of their successes. It is difficult for them to accept that something did not go right or that they ran into a stumbling block of some sort. Yet, when leaders acknowledge their failures they are also permitting their staff to feel comfortable taking risks instead of being afraid of failing.

Learn from it.

Use failure as feedback. Thomas Edison said, I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that wont work. What did you get feedback on? Take apart the feedback to understand the areas you are strong in and the areas you still need to work on. As Oprah Winfrey noted failure is a great teacher. And, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer. Of course, this is the hard part. Some people are not open to learning from their mistakes and instead blame others rather than seeing what they need to do to change. In organizations, having after-action reviews are a great way to examine what you and your team learned from a project. Some experts even encourage organizations to fail fast so that they can learn from their innovations. Can individuals do the same?

Stay positive. Use failure as a learning opportunity.

It is easy to get discouraged with obstacles along your path or setbacks that you werent counting on. But you have to stay positive. Leaders especially have to be positive to show a path of hope amidst difficulties or problems. Their followers are watching them and counting on them. As one of the great motivational speakers, Zig Ziglar said, Stay positive. If you learn from defeat, you arent really lost. Great leaders take accountability and own the mistakes, enabling everyone to learn from them.

Let the learning define you, not the failure.

Some people cant handle failure and let it take them down. Thus, they are defining themselves by the failure and not by what they have learned from the failure. Richard Branson, Head of Virgin Group, Ltd said dont let failure define you. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. If you accept that you will experience failures in your life especially as you challenge yourself, then you will also know that you can move on past the disappointments. Use the failure to take the time to reevaluate your goals and priorities to see if you are on the right path.

We will all experience setbacks and failures in our lives. It is inevitable, especially the more we take on new jobs and assignments and push ourselves to get out of our comfort zones and drive our firms to be open to new processes, people, and goals. As leaders, we need to serve as role models to demonstrate how to be graceful with losses and to show resilience in picking ourselves up to push forward or to take on new projects. After all, isnt that what we teach our children?

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If were talking Japanese cyberpunk then Ghost in the Shell has to be the ultimate expression of the genre. The 1995 movie is brilliantly written and does a great job of capturing the gritty high tech, low life ambiance thats so quintessentially cyberpunk.

The story takes place in Tokyo 2029 and follows a cyborg public-security agent who hunts a mysterious hacker known as the Puppet Master. Its a plot that features many of cyberpunks major themes, including transhumanism, augmentation, corporate warfare, and philosophical questions about self-identity in a technologically advanced world.

The franchise continued with a movie sequel called Innocence, as well as a TV series called Standalone complex. There also that live-action movie the less of which is said the better For our money, the original movie is the best expression of the whole saga.

If Ghost in the Shell is the ultimate expression of Japanese cyberpunk then Akira is its founding father. In fact, the film is highly regarded as a seminal Japanese cyberpunk anime production whose popularity and acclaim essentially paved the way for the countrys film industry to gain international recognition.

The story is set in a futuristic Neo Tokyo and follows the leader of a bike gang, Shtar Kaneda, whose friend, Tetsuo Shima, mysteriously gains telekinetic powers after hes involved in a crash with an Esper called Akira.

Those powers end up threatening an entire military base as they struggle to contain the threat, the same which destroyed the original Tokyo years earlier.

Its a gripping plot with pacing that moves at warp speed, making for an edge-of-your-seat type of experience. But Akira also serves as great homework for anybody interested in learning about the origins of the cyberpunk genre, exploring many of its key themes and generally oozing that dark ambiance and tone that makes cyberpunk so intoxicating.

Oh, and if youve been playing Cyberpunk 2077 then you might have noticed that Akiras bike design serves as inspiration for the awesome Yaiba Kusanagi.

Cyber City Oedo 808 is a cyberpunk anime gem that really embodies the 1980s vision of dystopian sci-fi with its long-haired anti-hero protagonists, synth-heavy OST, and gritty, mature writing.

The story tells the tale of three criminals who are enlisted in fighting crime in exchange for reduced sentences. The plot is a fairly serious affair overall, which starts as a murder mystery and then ends up exploring interesting cyberpunk themes such as transhumanism.

But you certainly wouldnt call it heavy not only are there some really over-the-top action scenes that are thoroughly entertaining but also a few comedic moments that are genuinely funny and not just because the English dub is somewhat cheesy at times (its also laden with profanity).

Overall, this is an action-heavy cyberpunk story full of 80s charm, from its punky aesthetic to its rocking guitar soundtrack. A real must-watch for cyberpunk fans.

In Bubblegum Crisis futuristic dystopia, its girls who run the world. Well, at least when it comes to cleaning up 2040 Tokyos streets of rogue robots!

This late 1980s, early 1990s anime tells the story of the Knight Sabres, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powerful exoskeletons that help them tackle boomer related crimes. No, we arent talking about beating up old folks here!

In Bubblegum Crisis, boomers are robots designed by the Megacorp Genom, which are intended to help mankind but can become powerful tools of destruction in the wrong hands. Thats where the Knight Sabres come in, a powerful task force of the AD Police.

Despite the name, Bubblegum Crisis is actually a rather dark and gloomy anime that tackles powerful themes such as social inequality, corporate espionage, and political infighting.

There arent too many of the light-hearted scenes you find in other anime series. Theres not even the age-old anime tradition of having the characters visit a beach or something similar.

To be fair, the series is only eight episodes long, so there wasnt much time for frolicking on the beach. There is, however, a 26-part reboot that was made in the late 1990s and is definitely also worth a watch.

For those really into dug Bubblegum Crisis, AD Police Files is an excellent spin-off thats set within the same universe and is absolutely worth checking out.

This short series serves as a prequel to Bubblegum Crisis and follows detective Leon McKnickles right at the very start of his career. It has a very neo-noir feel to the writing and aesthetic.

Sadly, this gritty, hardcore cyberpunk series only ran for three episodes before its production came to a sudden halt after a legal conflict between Artmic and Youmex.

Its such a shame, too, because AD Police Files had huge potential to become one of the all-time great cyberpunk animes. Its atmosphere and design are truly top-notch and something that fans of mature anime will really appreciate.

The only western anime on our list, The Animatrix is a nine-part series of short episodes that serve as a prequel to The Matrix and detail the original war between humankind and machines. Even if you arent a huge fan of The Matrix, trust us when we say this is a must-watch anime series.

Four of the nine animated short stories were released on The Matrixs official website, while the full collection was included as part of the DVD Matrix movie trilogy in 2003, but they were never really given a proper spotlight.

Indeed, its surprising how few people have actually seen or heard of The Animatrix, which is a pity considering its arguably better than any of the Matrix movies!

Battle Angel Alita is a two-part 1990s anime movie based on a popular manga series.

The story takes place 300 years after Earth was devastated by a catastrophic war known as The Fall. In this grim future, society is divided between those who live in the grimy Scrapyard City and the elite who live above them in a floating city called Zalem.

After happening across Gallys body on a scrapheap, the Cyberdoctor Daisuke Ido rebuilds her and becomes her surrogate father. Gally has no memory of her past but soon displays remarkable fighting skills. She starts working as a bounty hunter and meets a young man named Yugo, who she then tries to help reach Zalem.

Battle Angel Alita is one of Japans most popular cyberpunk manga series, and therefore much was expected of the anime when it launched in 1993.

While some purists didnt like all the changes made from the original manga, it is overall a very solid production with great artwork and music.

Certainly, the story lacks a bit of polish and feels a little incomplete in some aspects, but its still an anime wed highly recommend for those wanting to immerse themselves in the cyberpunk genre.

Texhnolyzeignores the typical cyberpunk pastiche for something that is original and unusual but every bit as atmospheric. In fact, it takes place in perhaps the most frightening dystopia of any cyberpunk anime, with a dark plot that lives long in the memory after its credits roll.

The story is set in a man-made underground city called Lux, which has become dilapidated after years of disrepair. The City, as its known, is referred to by its citizens almost as if it has a mind of its own, with three major factions attempting to control it and make it their own.

However, the main plot actually follows a young prizefighter named Ichise who loses two limbs after an altercation and is forced to undergo experimental surgery to replace them.

This, in turn, makes him so powerful that one of the citys three factions employs his services as a security detail.

Later, he then meets a mysterious girl named Ran who somehow is able to see visions of the future. The pair suddenly realize that Lux is heading toward a war that will destroy the entire population, and theyre the only ones who can stop it.

For those who are interested in exploring thought-provoking themes, such as human extinction, human morality, and nihilism, Texhnolyzewill be very appealing indeed.

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Debroy said that that he wrote this book to get millennials to read the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit (Pic: Express)

God might be an English word but its roots can be traced back to Sanskrit, said Bibek Debroy, author of the recently released The Bhagavad Gita for Millennials. He is more popularly know as an economist and the Chairman of the PM's Economic Advisory Council but he is considered an authority when it comes to Sanskrit texts. Debroy was speaking at TNIE's DakLF 2020 about his new bookThe Bhagavad Gita for Millennials. He was in conversation with senior journalist and author Kaveree Bamzai.

"I am averse to using words that are imported and implanted from the West, including a word like God," said Debroy. "The word God has different meanings. When someone uses the word God, they intend a certain meaning. The word God etymologically is cognate with a Sanskrit root Hutam, someone you offer oblations to. It's is a tragedy and travesty that millennials do not know this. If at the time of the Rajasuya Yagna, the first arghya was offered to Krishna in the Mahabharata, then, in some sense, Krishna was the Hutam. But I would not like to use the word, God," he added.

There is not one but many Gitas, said Debroy and added that there are more than 20 of them in Mahabharata itself. "Gita is anything that is sung or chanted. Here there is an adjective, Bhagavad, which automatically suggests that there must be other Gitas as well. There are around 60 different Gitas depending on how you define a Gita. Some of them, people are familiar with, like the Ashtavakra Gita," said Debroy. "There are texts like the Uddhava Gita which is from the Puranas. The two from the Mahabharata that people are probably most familiar with are the Dharma Vyadha Gita and the Anu Gita. There are things that are not directly referred to as Gitas but are very much on the same lines, for example, the Yaksha Prashna," he added.

Talking about whether the COVID-19 has made people realise the importance of the Gita, Debroy said that the Bhagavad Gita has always been there but due to COVID-19 people have much more free time they are not going to the multiplex and thus they have time to dip into the texts. "The Bhagavad Gita has always been there. If you are interested in it you will find the time, COVID or no COVID," he added.

Debroy said that that he wrote this book to get millennials to read the Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit. "Which is why there is a chapter on Sanskrit, and one on poetry because all of these texts are poetry. I wanted people to get sufficiently familiar to read the text of the Bhagavad Gita in Sankrit and then read translations and commentaries. To appreciate the Bhagavad Gita, one has to understand the Mahabharata and the role of Krishna. So I have put in all of that explanatory stuff in chapters so that people get interested," he added. "My intention, in this particular book, was not to do a translation. I have done that in the past. it was to get the so-called millennials interested in the Bhagavad Gita. For the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, my plea to the younger generation would be not to decide what kind of individual Krishna was on the basis of what one has picked up from a 144 character Twitter narration or television serials or from abridged tellings," Debroy added.

Answering Bamzai's question on whether one can learn Sanskrit with the help of his book, Debroy added that he has given tips on the Sanskrit alphabet. "Can one learn Sanskrit on one's own at home? Of course one can. I have no formal training in Sanskrit. My entire learning of Sanskrit has been self-taught at home. And one of the points that are made in the book is that the Sanskrit of the Bhagavad Gita is relatively simple. It is not the Sanskrit of Kalidasa. For the average person who is familiar with the Devnagari script, understanding the Bhagavad Gita is no big deal once you have done the two obvious things that happen in Sanskrit thesandhi thepadachhedand theanway. It seems complicated because Sanskrit is a language that flows freely," said Debroy.

No discussion about Gita feels complete without Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. "These are regarded as the four objectives of human existence. It is impossible to translate the word Dharma into English and it should not be translated to English without the context. There is a shloka which tries to define Dharma it says, whatever holds (things) up is Dharma. Different things hold up the fabric of society, so Dharma is a task, it is a duty and it is what we imperfectly translate into English as religion. Moksha is emancipation and liberation from Samsara, the cycle of worldly existence the cycle of birth death and rebirth. But the Bhagavad Gita itself says that Moksha is not for everyone and that only a few get Moksha while for the rest it is just Dharma, Artha and Kama. The Kama is the pursuit of sensual pleasures. It is invariably interpreted as sexual pleasures but the Kama is not just sex. Artha is the pursuit of material well-being and prosperity," he added.

But will the Bhagavad Gita help us find happiness? "If you expect the Bhagavad Gita to tell you to wake up in the morning and tell you to do three Suryanamaskars and you will be happy, then you will be disappointed. In the Bhagavad Gita, you will find what you wish to find. So it will have different lessons for different people. The word happiness is one that should not be bandied around without a care. What makes a person happy? What I am happy with right now, I won't be happy with a half-hour later. Most times when we interpret the word happiness we define it in terms of things that are completely temporary and transient. The message of the Bhagavad Gita is to focus on what is permanent," said the author.

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Four years ago, while looking at search analytics of our travel blog, we found that people were searching Hindi terms and that too in Devanagari, but they were obviously landing on an English page. This led us to launch our Hindi Travel blog that soon garnered a compact but loyal readership without much marketing. The marketing spends on the Hindi media and I assume other Indian languages stay negligible.

Things are changing fast though. Instagram recently announced that Instagram Lite would be available in several Indian languages. Google just announced that it would show relevant content in compatible Indian languages that include major Indian ones. I can already see my Google Adsense account in Hindi; Google Maps should soon follow.

The Facebook app already picks up a default local language for me based on my base location. The Jio browser for Android phones supports eight Indian languages. One of the big reasons for the success of video content is that it breaks the language barriers. It can be created without worrying about the grammar rules in the language or a dialect that you are most comfortable in.

As content is being translated and published in different languages around the country and the world, it opens up translation as a career opportunity for a large number of people. Perfect for those who want to live a flexible life with a laptop as office. This in turn is an opportunity for trainers who train people in different languages, either in online or offline classrooms or through mobile apps. I am reminded of my visit to Matturone of the rare Sanskrit-speaking villages in Karnataka.

While I was amazed to hear the fluent conversational Sanskrit, I was equally delighted to see them using basic technology to teach Sanskrit around the world. Translation may seem like a freelancers domain but there are big projects like the Murty Classical Library of India that is translating ancient Indian classics into English to make them available to the world. Given the number of manuscripts across the country and the world classics that we need to read in India, there is an opportunity for many more such projects.Mumbai-based Indus, through its App Bazaar, is creating Indias own version of Playstore to host mobile applications by leveraging the language advantage.

It offers over four lakh apps in 12 Indian languages. Currently it is the default app store on about hundred million Samsung devices in India. It offers localisation support to any developer who wants to create an Indian language mobile app or port any existing app in Indian languages along with helping them with distributiona great move that would help local language users as well as open up opportunities for those who want to build local and hyperlocal apps in these languages.

Induss technical support though still remains global, be it device partners Samsung or cloud partners Amazon web services. The company is yet to be profitable but its pioneering investment in languages will hopefully soon take it there. Those working on natural language processing (NLP) have been trying to bridge the gap between human and machine learning. If you have ever wondered how your mobile phone creates your version of a dictionary on your device or how it converts text to speech taking care of the nuances of your pronunciation, or how Gmail suggests possible replies for your emails, its NLP at work. Machine translation is part of its portfolio.

It is an area that has seen limited yet extremely usable success. You cannot yet trust the machine translations to have literary quality, but for all practical purposes they work. Google just launched its made in India, free and open-source machine learning tool for Indian languages called Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages or MuRIL for researchers, students, and start-ups who want to create local language technologies.

IBMs Watson Discoveryan artificial intelligence-based discovery toolnow supports Hindi, which is one of the 10 languages that they support worldwide. Simply put, this means that all the content available in these supported languages can now be searched for and translated to the language searched in. The impact of this is multi-dimensional. English would cease to be a necessary condition for both employers as well as employees, sharpening the focus on the core competencies and widening the net at both ends. Not to miss the opportunities in building more such technology tools.

A Gujarati reader once reported that he translates my posts using Google translate and gets confused, urging me to write in Gujarati. It told me about the need or market for local languages, the adaptation of latest technologies in remote areas, and the knowledge and hence opportunities gap that a better solution can plug for the user.

For the longest time we have seen digital nomads travelling the world teaching spoken English in non-English speaking regions. Would we see people travelling around to teach yoga or music speaking their own languages and using technology to communicate?

AnuradhaGoyal (Tweets @anuradhagoyal) Author and founderof IndiTales (https://www.inditales.com/)

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Gurugram: On the auspicious occasion of Geeta Jayanti, Amity School of Liberal Arts, Amity University Haryana is organizing its 2nd International Conference on Relevance of Ka:rmik and Indic Studies to Contemporary Education on 24-25 December 2020 at its Gurugram Campus. The prime objective of the conference is to understand the relevance of Ka:rmik and Indic Studies and to incorporate Indic values and knowledge system in contemporary education for harmonious living. The Chief Guest of the Conference, Prof Sushma Yadav, Vice Chancellor, Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwvidayala emphasized on Ka:rmik and Indic Studies and its relevance in all the times. She emphasized on Sat Karma, Dushkarma and Punya Karma which play vital role in growth, leadership and sustainability of one and all. Encouraging the speakers and participants of the Conference, she emphasized over the need of conducting similar events in future with mutual collaboration. On this occasion, the Vice Chancellor of Amity University Haryana, Prof P. B. Sharma said, The concept of righteousness in society will be visible if we follow the concepts of the Gita and its action-oriented philosophy. He emphasized on Self Discipline, Purity of Mind, Harmony with Nature, Strict Adherence to Truth, Integration of Gyana and Vigyana as in the Bhagwat Gita. He, further, stated that human life will be full of Divine Bliss and Happiness if we go along with the reservoir of our rich philosophical spiritual heritage and Indic knowledge system. Prof. Padmakali Banerjee, the Pro Vice Chancellor of Amity University Haryana stated that, Modern world is looking forward to Sanskrit as a language and literature for playing a vital role in wellbeing and happiness of society. She emphasized on assimilating thoughts with actions in human life. She also encouraged ka:rmik and Indic researchers to take their research works further and disseminate the findings of their Indic research works for the well-being of our society. In his welcome address, the Chief Convener of the conference and Director (Liberal Arts), Prof. S. K. Jha, voiced over the needs of adopting and adapting to age-old Indic values and knowledge system. He advocated that Sanskrit will ensure our Sanskar (good conduct), and Sanskar will ensure our Sanskriti (Good Culture). Paying a tribute to Prof. C. Bhuvaneswar, Prof. Jha released his edited book The Rise of Karmikology with 18 selected papers of Karmik researchers. The enlightening ceremony was attended by eminent academicians like, Prof. Kamdev Jha, Principal, DAV College, Pehowa, Kurushetra, Haryana, Prof. Ashutosh Dayal Mathur, Head, Department of Sanskrit, St. Stephens College, University of Delhi. Delhi, Prof.Ashutosh Angiras, S.D. College, Ambala, Haryana; Prof. Girish Chandra Pant, Former Head, Department of Sanskrit, JMI, New Delhi; Mr.Shaalan Najem Abdullah (Iraq), Ms. Shaima Yousif Alzaidy (Iraq),Prof Udaya Narayana Singh, Dr Supriya Sanju, Dr Sunil Mishra, and Dr Shradhanvita and many others.

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